I suppose we can end it, or we can let the Fed and Crystal duke it out for third place, while me a the robots slowly Gorbie Capture Beam, Imperial Assault and Viral Field our way across the galaxy. I'll send my ally a reminder to come vote. We'll just need the fed to vote as well.

We have been growing our empire, slowly but steadily with no real opposition in sight
Those 20 or so Antimatter launchers haven't even been fired yet.
We just use them for cold-war control.